New online: Klaus Mäkelä’s double act

Frida Kahlo – A Life of Pain  On Sunday it will be 70 years since Frida Kahlo died. The ground-breaking Mexican artist was best known for her vivid and explorative self-portraits.  Her life was eventful, […]

Bucharest National Opera is premiering Gil Shohat’s The Eichmann Trial at the end of the month. The opera, based in an Israeli stage play by Motti Lerner, aims to ‘keep the memory of the past […]

The fabulous Portuguese singer Misia died in Lison of cancer last week. She was 69. Portugal’s Culture Minister Dalila Rodrigues called her ‘a fundamental voice in the renewal of fado’. This is what we’ll miss. […]